I've listened to this new tube now for a few days and I really like it in my CS (Steve mentioned not to use this for the CSP). Using this tube I certainly notice more gain, but there is a bit more "umph" as well that I woudn't associate with just simply being louder. Both vinyl and CD have more presence - its a good thing

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I second your opinion. I was going to write my impression but you hit the nail on the head. This tube is definitely worth trying.

I'm getting occasional pulses of "white noise" with this tube in my Select-Ex. The bursts are soft, and only noticeable between cuts, but they are there. Anybody else? Perhaps a faulty tube. With no tube tester----? Don

Gotta chime in on this new tube from Steve. I received my two 6H2N's from Devon two weeks ago along with two TAD El 84-STR, installed them but have not really had a chance to sit and listen until last night. WOW! This little SE84CS (RCA 5U4) is driving my Klipsch FR-82's and sounding so sweet, detailed and lots of UMPH! Although last Tuesday my wife was watching a DVD and mentioned some kind of a staticy sound off the left speaker, which I did hear (soft white noise bursts like Sam in USA??) but it only happened that night. Yesterday I listened to about 6 side of vinyl, and my wife and I must of listened to five or six full cd's and this amp is now what I envisioned it would sound like when I build it two years ago. Been thinking about that Mullard 5Y3 from tube sales...any one running one in a SE84CS and want to comment?? Long live tubes!!!

Hey Rap Thanks for your help I am sorry that i could not answer sooner but I could not find where I posted that question. my stupid E-mail thing would not let me E-mail but on Thursday I called Steve and he explained all of that about the new tube and the ex mod well Friday my amp was in the mail for the mod and now I am waiting again! Steve seems really cool and very patient and helpful dealing with my stuff. From what I have seen this new tube is really fine! I still do not feel like I am in the right spot to post this. I guess thats why I am called lost in space on some sites because i really am on the internet ha ha! One of these days I will become functional on computers until then I am in trouble ha ha! did not mean to interupt you guys!~ goodnight

I find the 6n2p's in the Torii mk II are not right. I'm still using 6922's.In the original Torii 'C' with the the preamp stage, this is THE tube for it. Anyone who has one of these amps and hasn't tried it, should.

I had been wanting to try these tubes for a while, but a slightly botched e-bay transaction, a USPS mis-delivery, and an elongated cryo-treatment process had me waiting for weeks.

Last night, I discovered the wait was WELL worth it !I slapped one each of these cryo-treated 6n2p-EVs into my pair of Selects with aging sets of cryoed 6P15P-Evs and started spinning. I immediately noticed the need to lower the gain on my Shanling CDP by about 8-10 steps for normal listening levels.

Before putting these tubes in, I listened to a few tracks off Bela Fleck and the Flecktones: Hidden Land CD (one of my favorite recordings of late, highly recommended) with the NOS Mullards I had been using for months. I'm very familiar with this recording, perhaps TOO familiar ! It sounded great as always. There are a few small passages of max SPL where my system is normally pushed to the edge of clipping at higher volumes and this is where I hoped these new tubes would help. Once I swapped out the Mullards for the new 6n2p-EVs and let them warm-up for about 20min, I knew this was going to be a loooonnnngggggg night in the music room.

Everything, and I mean EVERY THING sounded better with these new tubes.

HF - nicely extended, smooth and shimmery without grain. I did notice a bit more sibilance on female vocals, but it sounded more revealing, then flawed. Cymbals were crisper, tighter, with more sustain.

MIDS - straight butter. With the added gain, I was able to get to more than adequate volumes with NO hint of being on the edge of clipping with even the most challenging passages. They also seemed to tame the slight ‘shout’ factor of the Fostex drivers.

LF - Detail, detail, detail. Victor Wootens bass lines, especially the cuts with 6-string had me hearing a bunch of new subtleties and details. I found myself cutting back my usual setting of 0db gain on the Sunfire sub, to -2 or -3db.

Things got even better when I loaded a fresh set of 6P15P-EVs into the Selects. The tubes were only about 5 months old, but have been ON most of that time, and had lots of playtime. I ended up awake in the music room until almost 3am. Haven't done that in quite a while !

Knock on wood, I have experienced none of the white noise bursts some folks here have experienced with this tube. I bought a lot of 25 from a fellow in the Ukrane for $1.85/tube including shipping ! add $5.00/tube for cryo treatment and you have no doubt THE best bargain I've come across in tubeland.

[quote author=RobLikesTubes link=1151980939/45#54 date=1164809880]Knock on wood, I have experienced none of the white noise bursts some folks here have experienced with this tube. I bought a lot of 25 from a fellow in the Ukrane for $1.85/tube including shipping ! add $5.00/tube for cryo treatment and you have no doubt THE best bargain I've come across in tubeland.

RUN, don't walk, to get yourself some of these ! [/quote]

I think that's the best way to buy them. At that price you can afford to cull a few of the bad ones.Yes there are bad ones. ;D